iBackup

iBackup is a simple to use backup/restore utility.
Backup doesn't backup the whole disk (image) but the data and settgins of a user. The reason for that is to get smaller backups. With iBackup you must first install your operating system, after that you can restore your data with iBackup (or you simply drag and drop the files).
The greatest feature of iBackup is its ability to backup settings, e.g. Mail, iPhoto, iTunes, but also 3rd party applications (at the moment more than 250 plugins for backup application settings are available) which allow you to restore the settings and data of one application or to restore an earlier point in time.


Show headen files in the Finder


defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE


Shows hidden files in the finder. Replace TRUE with FALSE to hide hidden files again! You will need to relaunch the Finder! hold down cmd+alt and press esc, select Finder and press Relaunch!

Drag widgets out of Dashboard onto the desktop

defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES


This allows you to drag widgets out of Dashboard onto the desktop. Requires the dock to be relaunched to take effect, so type "killall Dock" and press enter. Now, if you click and hold onto a widget in the dashboard and press F12 to return to the desktop, the widget won't disappear with the rest. Do the same to put the widget back to Dashboard!

Put NO at the end of the command instead of YES to reverse.

Remove 3D glossy effect from your Dock! (Leopard only)




If you want your Dock to look just like when it is positioned on the left/right, open terminal and type:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock


To switch it back type:


defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO; killall Dock


Customize your terminal prompt

You can customize your terminal prompt to look like this:
vassilis@Wide-MAC-OS: ~/Desktop$

simply type [export PS1=" "]

Between the quotation marks, you can add the following lines to customize your Terminal prompt:

\d – Current date
\t – Current time
\h – Host name
\# – Command number
\u – User name
\W – Current working directory (ie: Desktop/)
\w – Current working directory, full path (ie: /Users/Admin/Desktop)

the command [export PS1="\u@\h\w$ "] for example will look like:

Admin@MacBook~Desktop/$ "

Make it permanent ...

edit your .profiile file located in your home root folder using [pico] editor. Add a line, type the above command and save the file.


Dock Library


Change your Dock appearance!
Choose between dozens of templates that you can find here.
Download them, import zip files to Dock Library and you' done !!





Whould you like a dock like this ?

QuickSilver

A unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data.
This is all I have to say: Download it now! It rocks!!!

...check this video if you want :)





be sure to download the appropriate version... URL

MAMP

Activate apache and mysql server with a simple click!
Manage your site locally!







Transmission

Transmission is a cross-platform BitTorrent client! I think it's the best.
I try to post only the best freeware here anyway :)








Cyberduck

FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files & Amazon S3 Browser for Mac OS X.
It features an easy to use interface with quickly accessible bookmarks. The outline view of the browser allows to browse large folder structures efficiently and you can quickly preview files with Quick Look. To edit files, a seamless integration with several external editors makes it easy to change content quickly.





Adium

Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more...








VLC Player

VLC media player is a multi-purpose multimedia tool. It can play DVDs, VCDs or read a stream from the network. It plays DivX/MPEG-4 files (and many other files) and is unaffected by the dreaded .avi bug which can cause choppy sound when playing DivX in QuickTime Player. You can also stream content to the network or a file.








URL | download

Perian

Perian aims to provide a single package for all your playback needs. It is a collection of QuickTime components incorporating several libraries:

• libavcodec, from the ffmpeg project, along with code from the old FFusion component:

• MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2

• DivX

• 3ivx

• H.264

• Flash Video

• Flash Screen Video

• VP6

• H263I

• VP3

• HuffYUV and ffvhuff

• Indeo 1 & 2

• MPEG-1 & 2 Video (in supported formats)

• Fraps (up to v4)

• Windows Media Audio v1 & v2

• Flash ADPCM

• Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska)

• MPEG Layer I and II audio

• DTS Coherent Acoustics audio

• Snow wavelet video

• DosBox video

• Nellymoser ASAO audio

• libavformat, from the ffmpeg project. along with AVIImporter.component:

• AVI file format

• FLV file format

• NUV file format

• libmatroska, along with matroska-qt.component:

• MKV file format

• Subtitles:

• (Advanced) SubStation Alpha

• SRT

• SAMI

• VobSub

• liba52, via A52Codec:

• AC3 audio


URL | download

Flip4Mac

With Flip4Mac Windows Media Components for QuickTime you can play Windows Media files (.wma and .wmv) directly in QuickTime Player and view Windows Media content on the Internet using a Web browser.







Burn

Burn burns...


Data disks

With burn you can burn five different kind of disks.


Audio disks

With Burn you can burn Audio CDs and MP3 disks.


Video disks

With Burn you can burn four kind of video disks. VCD, SVCD, DVD and DIVX disks.


Images and copy

With Burn you can burn three kind of images. Normal disk images, cue/bin images and toc images. And copy data disks.


Forget worrying about convertion. Burn will take your video and audio files and turns them in the right format.


URL | download

aFloat

Puts a window always on top of all others, lets you see through a window, lets you resize a window by “grabbing” it from any point (not just the bottom-right corner), makes a window remain on the screen even if you switch Spaces, and more ...






unrarX

Easily unrar your compressed files!








aLunch

You can organize your applications in categories and lunch them from the icon located on the status menu!











URL | download from URL please!

AppCleaner

AppCleaner is a small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps.

Installing an application distributes many files throughout your System using space of your Hard Drive unnecessarily.
AppCleaner finds all these small files and safely deletes them.

Simply drop an application onto the AppCleaner window. It will find for the related files and you can delete them by clicking the delete button.



URL | download

fsEventer

fsEventer is a disk monitor application. You can monitor all changes made to your hard disk during an application setup, etc.
Observes filesystem changes using the same underlying API as Spotlight, provides a graphical representation of the file activity. Requires admin access & will only work on Mac OS X 10.4+ “Tiger” and “Leopard”.



MouseFix

...for those who know no explanation is necessary, for those who don't; none would be enough :)

MouseFix is a command line utility that changes the curve of the mouse movement. Some of us realized that the mouse acceleration on Leopard is a little bit ... strange, confusing! So try this utility .. it might help !!




Macfusion

Macfusion is an open source Mac application that allows you to work with files on servers across the internet, as if they were sitting on your computer. Macfusion presents a Volume in Finder, letting you use your favorite Mac applications to work with them.

Mount ftp locations and computers that can be accessed via ssh on your finder !




Macfuse

Macfuse is a collection of headers.

MacFUSE is software that allows you to write arbitrary file systems as user-space programs. You can think of it as a library for easily developing Mac OS X file systems. Note that it does not load any drivers or affect your system in anyway!

MacFUSE is not an application. It's not a background process. It's not something that launches automatically at boot time or any other time. It does not configure, reconfigure, or modify the normal working of OS X by itself. It does not alter settings of any OS X components besides placing its preference pane for System Preferences to use.

It is essential for other utilities such as ntfs-3g, macfusion, to work.

NTFS 3G

If you have any external hard drives with ntfs file format (MS Window XP, etc) and you need read - write permissions when connecting them to your mac, then this is for you!
It works with any ntfs partition connected to your system.
How it works? it just overrides the ... poor mac os's pre-installed driver for mounting ntfs file systems.
NTFS-3G can be disabled / uninstalled anytime.

This utility includes macfuse packages as well. Macfuse is a collection of headers. Note that it does not load any drivers or affect your system in anyway!

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